#[I've been wanting to write and Produce Content all day but my brain's been making the windows error noise

[chantlight]

being a Mortalitasi isn't all glitz and glammer, though. lower-ranking members of the order get all the fun jobs like environmental control [temperature, humidity, etc.], cleaning tombs and streets of the necropolis, lighting lamps, mummy maintenance [changing clothing, etc]. exciting stuff.

#OOC / HOLLY. #necropoleis are CITIES of the dead #someone's gotta sweep the streets man #[I've been wanting to write and Produce Content all day but my brain's been making the windows error noise #y'all get unpolished nonsense instead] #Mortalitasi do all sorts of stuff tho they aren't all directly involved in funerals #they're pretty spirit and death focused obvs but that's broad #you also need archivists and bookkeepers and etc y'know #like you're a mage and a Mortalitasi but if your true calling is accounting or city planning or conservation or Anything Else #boy do I have good news for you #esp with Mortalitasi technically claiming every Nevarran mage #[they aren't all initiated into the mysteries but this allows them to control their own education and keep traditions alive #and not have to build Circles + confine themselves to them. it's a loophole] #you aren't limited to purely magical career options #there ARE limits and there ARE concessions [i.e. tied to necropoleis; a degree of templar oversight; tracked and documented] #but we see Mortalitasi at least of high rank pretty much moving freely #you can attend university; you have access to training of various natures; you can pursue any career #oh god how does the order get its funding tho . . . #they make a profit from funerals. they'd get funding from the government and donations from wealthy individuals. #every day people undoubtedly donate too #then there's extra money to be made from the various services they can offer [enchantments; amulets; divination; the list is a mile long] #they basically have a monopoly on mages and magic #yeah they're not hurting for money esp when their power is at a peak

[chronicbeans]

Wally and a Puppeteer Reader (part 3)

My brain has gone on with this idea and I love where it is going. Yippee!

TW: Obsessive Behavior, Stalking, Scopophobia/Eye Imagery, Idol Worshipping

🎥 This has gone on long enough! In just a few weeks since that interview, the letters and pictures have increased tenfold! You keep finding Wally in the oddest of places, like on your desk, in the lounge, or even next to your locker. It constantly feels like eyes are watching you.

🎥 Even the contents of the letters are getting stranger. They were always odd and creepy, but at least before they had lighthearted words in them. Now they're saying things like "You're the air I breathe and all I see. You make my days better or worse. You keep me warm and keep this neighborhood bright! Please, never abandon me!" It's all written in that messy crayon writing, too, which makes an eerie contrast to the words that makes you sick. It seems so childishly unaware of how disturbing the words are when thought about for too long.

🎥 The drawings aren't much better. Nine out of ten times, they include you in some way. From the pictures just including you, including you and the characters from Welcome Home, to - worst of all, in your opinion - you in real life places. You sitting at your desk. You sleeping in the lounge. You getting a cookie at the snack stand during the interview. There's even one of you putting on your coat at the lockers. The drawings may not be the highest quality, but they are detailed enough to both be recognizable places and to alarm you.

🎥 You have an idea of who it might be. It's gotta be Wally's voice actor. They were his puppeteer before their arthritis kicked in. They just couldn't move their hands enough to properly puppet him anymore, always complaining that it hurt, despite the medications they took. But, the producer did decide to keep them as Wally's voice actor, saying that nobody could replicate his distinct laughter, tone of speech, and voice pitch. Despite this, Wally's voice actor was properly ticked and hated the fact they were replaced. They're always acting passive aggressive towards you. It must be them, probably to try to scare you away.

🎥 Today, you have decided to confront them. Marching over to their recording booth, you knock on the door. When they open it, they have that signature glare that would put even Frank's to shame. Before they can even ask what you want, you tell them all about what has been going on and how you know they have been doing it. They have to be behind it. All of these drawings and letters have Wally's signature writing and art style. The only person that knows Wally more than you is his voice actor. It HAS to be them!

🎥 They grow silent, before looking at the pictures and letters. Then, they look up at you and say, in the most matter of fact tone "I haven't been able to draw or write anything in character for a YEAR, (Y/N). What makes you think I would put myself through the pain of trying to replicate it after all this time, with my horrible joints, just to frighten YOU, of all people? You aren't worth my time, much less my comfort. You got any other evidence to accuse me of this... Whatever this is?"

🎥 You grow silent. To be honest, thinking back on it, it really is a stupid idea that they would do all of this to scare you. If they couldn't even muster up the energy to go out of their way to verbally confront you, then it would be shocking for them to put the effort to write and draw things to do so. You still have one more question, though...

🎥"What about the voice I've been hearing? It sounds just like Wally. You are his voice actor. You have gotta know something."

🎥 Their eyes grow wide. Then, they shrug "The one that has been saying things about... well, something. It's always a bit too muffled to hear exactly what it is. I thought you somehow improved your Wally impression and were practicing in order to replace me completely. Your impression may be off enough for the producers to care, but it was always the best one here. You're telling me you aren't the one making that voice?"

#welcome home #wally darling x reader #wally darling #welcome home arg #welcome home x reader

[waterfallofspace]

A Word-Filled Update

that no one's asking forrrr~

Sooooo, hiya~ ^^

Realized I kinda dropped out without much word, and wanted to give a lil update to anyone who may care, (and specifically to all the unfilled requests that have been sat in my inbox for months now T~T)

Dropping it under a cut because it gets quite long~ but I'll also TL;DR it with: been a bit burnt out, trying to get back into this, I apologize for all the unanswered asks, and I will be trying to get to the ones I can, but I'll be focusing more on trying to enjoy the process of making content~ Thank you to anyone who's stuck around <3

(Tw for brief mention of mental health/neurodivergencies~ nothing in depth or dark, but just incase anyone wants to avoid that <3)

Nothing serious has been going on, mostly just burn out and a bit of drama in main friend group, combined with free time just being a lot more limited recently~ (not a bad thing, most of it is because I'm getting to talk more with friends I've gotten closer to this past year~)

That said, I've been trying to get back into content, making it, reblogging it, etc, without letting it become all-consuming. I find, with the way my brain works, mostly to do to some wonderful neurodivergent tendencies, I tend to fall heavily into 'all of nothing' mentality.

This shows up in my day to day life, (ie: can't wash the dishes for weeks until I suddenly do them all in one day) and I've definitely noticed it with content creation. Need to write and finish a story in one go, record a wav as fast as possible, always afraid I'll lose that motivation.

But honestly? I love making content on here! And I'm not a huge blog, nor do I care if I am (at least trying not to, if I'm being painfully honest~) but I genuinely love making content. Whether it's just for me, a request that I am hoping one specific person will enjoy, or a story I write with a community in mind, I just love creating~

So, I'm trying to ease my way back into this! Bit by bit, let it be fun, and enjoyable, with less internal pressure to produce as much as I can, as fast as I can, and make it be perfect.

I won't lie and say 'numbers don't matter to me', if I'm honest, they do. But I'm learning more and more how to let it be about the content, and to just enjoy the process~ (and if people like it, that'll be a wonderful bonus!~)

Wooo this is getting so long, I apologize sincerely! Last thing, something I've mentioned a few times previously but never really let myself get into... requests~

I'm so honoured that people care about my content enough to have asked for things, and getting any ask, request, praise, ask lists, heck even just a 'hi!' is honestly the best part of this blog for me!

Buuuut, I definitely worked myself into burn-out before with a "every request needs to be filled and fast" mentality, that led to just... not filling any.

So! I'm going back through my inbox, and deleting some older ones that I don't have a clear vision/motivation for. I apologize to anyone who requested them, though by now it's possible they're long gone~ But I think this will help me not only start enjoying the creation process without feeling so overwhelmed, but also start actually getting more content made~

There are definitely a bunch that I still adore, and am thrilled to get to test out, but if there's one you remember sending, and you really want to see it completed, please feel free to send another ask saying what it is you want done, and I'll see if I can get that going <3

And if you've stuck it out to the end here- uh hi! ^^ I'm sorry this is so long, I'm such a words person, but I appreciate you so much, not just for any support you've offered, but just bothering to read this <3 I genuinely didn't expect most to make it this far, so thank you so deeply <3 and I hope to see you guys around as I start reblogging stuff more!~

#waterfalltalks #waterfallrambles #more like waterfallparagraphs im so sorry hahaha #been thinking about making this for awhile- but always felt so anxious??? #idk why specifically... maybe cause i cant be short to save my life #or maybe because it feels like ive left it too long?? been promising so much and never fulfilling #but i am gonna try!! not to fulfill everything but- to start enjoying it again #i worry this comes off like i have an ego... i really dont haha~ i dont expect anyone to really interact with my blog or care #it was always meant to be for ME- and i just hoped to create things ID enjoy and that #if anyone else enjoyed it too that i could start giving back to the community thats given me so much content ive adored #anyways this is a LONNNGGG post and so are these tags hahaha~ #using this blog as a journal again i think! but its mine! so okay! im gonna let myself! #gonna add here too that i might be reblogging with shorter tags for a bit- i promise its not cause im not excited!!! #just trying to make it the least overwhelming situation so i can start really getting back into ENJOYING it~ #thank you to anyone who read this far and a huge thank you to all my friends from here and anyone who stuck around <3 #i appreciate and love you all so dearly <333 #not snz

[thelazyhermits]

Got some TWST-related content underneath the cut~

Okay, so there's something I've been thinking about for a while now that I've finally decided to make a post about since it's better for my brain to just write out these kinds of thoughts/ideas lol

I've been wondering, what if it's possible for UM to experience the kinda growth that Quirks do? Like, just as heroes can improve their Quirks via training, what if that can be done to a certain degree with UM?

I just really like the idea of Yuu finding herself in the kinda position where she can help her friends strengthen their UM if they so desire to do that, like what Fortune does with her students and their Quirks.

The main person I think of when I picture this kinda scenario is Kalim since I feel like there's so much potential with his UM.

For starters, he can create all that rain with just a little of his magic, which makes me wonder what would happen if he purposely used more magic than necessary. Would the the rain last longer? Would it rain even harder?

I didn't mention this in my Book 4 summary post cause this idea hadn't crossed my mind at the time, but I like the idea of Yuu asking those questions out of curiosity after she learns about Kalim's UM.

Even though she's not in a teaching position in this AU, Yuu has grown up constantly trying to improve herself and become stronger for the sake of survival, and she's always studying her opponents' abilities in order to properly gauge what kinda threat they are to her.

Plus, there were times when she'd offer advice to all the poor kids in the underworld who were younger than her and suffering because they just weren't cut out for fighting like she was.

So, as a result, Yuu just automatically finds herself analyzing people's abilities, and this leads to her making observations and asking questions.

After Kalim first shows off his UM in Book 4, Yuu asks these questions, and he's very surprised since he really never gave much thought into what his UM could do if he used more magic.

And when he says that he never really thought much of his UM since it doesn't seem very useful to him, Yuu is quick to tell him how useful it could be to others who don't have access to water since, despite what he thinks, those types of people still do exist.

Plus, Yuu thinks Kalim's UM could also be useful to him if he were to find a way to increase how much rain he can produce.

For example, if Kalim ever found himself in a dangerous situation, he could summon a torrential downpour the likes of which make it hard for anyone to see anything around them, and while his attacker is caught off guard, Kalim could make his escape.

If it was possible for Kalim to summon enough water to actually knock someone to their knees, that would be even better, but Yuu figures the first idea would be more feasible between the two.

Kalim is fascinated by Yuu's ideas since those kinds of thoughts would've never crossed his mind, and I feel like, because of his experience with kidnappings, etc, he'd take an interest in being able to have this method of escape that doesn't involve hurting anyone.

Fast forward to Jamil's final OB battle, Kalim is bound and determined to do whatever he can to save Jamil. He convinces Yuu to let him work as a distraction along with her and Grim rather than just let himself be protected by her while the Octatrio take care of battling Jamil's Phantom.

I just really love the idea of Kalim taking a stand in this moment. He wants to fight alongside Yuu and do everything he can to save Jamil. He's used to being protected, but this time, he wants to do the protecting.

Because she wants to respect his feelings, Yuu agrees to team up with Kalim, and she's the one who brings up the conversation they both had about his UM the other day.

Yuu knows it's a shot in the dark, but she really wants to give the idea a try since that has the potential to catch Jamil off guard and provide the opening she needs.

Kalim immediately agrees to try her idea, so while Yuu takes care of distracting Jamil along with Grim, Kalim starts the incantation for his UM and begins pumping out more magic than usual in hopes that this will have some kind of effect on his UM's final product.

Fortunately, much to Kalim's amazement and Jamil's disbelief, Kalim is able to summon a heavy downpour, but it only lasts for a moment because this is Kalim's first time doing this, and this is something that requires more practice to fine-tune.

Thankfully, because of her Quirk, Yuu had foreseen Kalim's success, so she had already started running toward Jamil before the downpour started.

As a result, during the brief period of time when Jamil's vision is hampered thanks to the rain, Yuu is able to approach him and punch him hard in the face, at the same time Azul and the others finally take down Jamil's Phantom, resulting in Jamil's defeat.

I just really like the idea of Kalim contributing more to the final battle, so I wanted to change things up a little bit and have that development with his UM that's so full of potential.

I also love the thought of, after Book 4 events, Kalim secretly approaching Yuu and asking her to help him train his UM because he wants to become stronger and surprise/impress Jamil. And he's hoping he'll also be able to help people down the line by strengthening his UM.

I think it'd be cool if through training Kalim could create downpours when he needs them and also eventually gain the ability to summon rain in small select areas and just focus all his magic on the one area that needs rain, like an empty well for example.

Even though not a lot of time passes in between the two books, I'd love for this training to bear fruit in Book 5 during Vil's OB battle since I really want Kalim to get a chance to shine by having him use his UM in the battle since he could use his rain during moments when Vil tries to use poison gas on everyone, and he could hamper Vil's vision as well.

Kalim can't do this too much, of course, since it's more taxing to use his UM when he pours a lot of magic into it, but he's still able to help out a lot with his UM.

His actions completely catch Jamil off guard, and while he'd never admit it, Jamil is a little impressed with Kalim's growth. Of course, he'll still chide Kalim about overdoing it and order him to not do anything reckless/dangerous since he's still in charge of keeping Kalim safe lol

Because of how well he did during that battle, Kalim continues to train with Yuu after Book 5 events since he wants to impress Jamil even more, and I feel like he'd see this as a way he can become more of an equal with Jamil since he wants to become a more capable mage like Jamil.

Plus, if Kalim can use his UM to protect himself, that means less work for Jamil, and Jamil won't have to put himself in danger for his sake, which would definitely be a big motivator for Kalim.

Yuu is all too happy to help Kalim train whenever he asks since she likes being able to help him, and she thinks it's good for him to have a goal for himself that he can strive toward that can only be reached through his own efforts and can't be done by other people or solved with money.

I just think this would be a nice addition to Kalim's character development arc in my A Twisted Future series ^^

#fortune in twisted wonderland

[mareenavee]

For choose violence asks: 12 (easy), 17 or 18 (my favorite questions in the list), 22

PARA!!! Flapping about over here and cawing, are we? I appreciate it :D Let's do this!!! And give you something to read over coffee.

From this sardonic ask game right here.

12. The unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

You want me to talk more about Athis? Well yes, I shall oblige.

I have a hard time judging who is and isn't popular. I just like who I like and will write fanfiction around them LOL simple as that.

But Athis, the bean, does lack quite a bit of fanfiction in his tag and he needs more attention so I'll yell about him some more.

I like how you can ask him his story, even if it's...admittedly not much. AND then if you ask him to repeat himself he gets affronted and sarcastic really fast:

What does it mean to be a Companion? The second time asking: "To me, it means not having to answer foolish questions a second time."

Bean. <3 As good an answer as any especially since most LDBs are gonna be engaging in Riekling Behavior and aren't really worth talking to on a good day LOL. Even as Harbinger.

This little factioid off the wiki:

Although his default gear is governed by the Light Armor skill, Athis is actually more proficient in heavy armor.

So it appears he's that kind of person who is barely wearing any clothing at all for no discernable practical reason. In fact is the opposite of practical if one were to consider the effectiveness of said armor and his specific skill set. So... no reason at all except to be barely wearing any clothing at all. And that does take a specific kind of person, doesn't it? LOL

(I mean I don't write him this bold, honestly because it's a little tiny bit annoying that most of the warriors in the Companions aren't very practical warriors in this manner. But it is a thing. It's a "trait" Bethesda gave him.)

And another tidbit!

You bring his butt with you over to Solstheim or on the Barenziah's crown quest and get too close to that side of the map near Morrowind? The boy gets antsy.

Here:

"Are you thinking you're better than me? I crawled west out of the wasteland, so show some respect." "I avoid going to Eastmarch if I can. Something in the air... I think it's just too close to the border."

I fully intend to twist all of this out of shape and make something really cool of his backstory. I've already hinted at some of it in a few posts here, but yeah. Bethesda gave me a crumb and I will run with it. (:

So yes ATHIS. (Yeah that turned into a ramble. I wonder how that happened. Hm.)

17. there should be more of this type of fic/art

For art specifically!! Please more alchemy ingredients just tossed on a canvas. I love plants, love drawing them but I am not the kind of artist who produces work at a very fast rate and I would have a whole blog of just different depictions of Skyrim alchemy ingredients and plants if enough content existed. I love it so very much.

Fic? More friendship fics for sure. Not everything has to be shippy. (Aro brain taking the wheel again.) If it is gonna be somewhat about love, though, please definitely show me as much possible diversity in the different, nuanced types of love, romantic and otherwise or different iterations of romantic relationships. Knock me off my feet with the coolest possible aro pairing I've ever seen. ( :> ) Make me feel seen with your words, people. Make yourself feel seen in your work, because it's yours. It doesn't need to be a shippy fic if what calls to you is something more or something else.

That said, I am very fond of certain pairings and can be persuaded to like ships. BUT more nuance is always very, very needed and good.

18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...

OOOh this one again yesss.

Oh. REBUILDING!!! I want fic where we're seeing things being fixed, and settlements recovering. I understand that the theme of the world is decay, really and the dragons are about to [redacted] up the entire situation. BUT. But. It doesn't make sense that things have stagnated for decades or centuries... there should have been some repair to Winterhold. There should have been some kind of changes made to the structure of cities in Vvardenfell, some rebuilding. I think the fandom could do some really cool redesigning and bring forward a ton of awesome OC backstories set in situations of rebuilding like this. I know some mods fix these things, but like...to really dig into what it means for people and why they may be in Skyrim due to these efforts or being displaced due to incorrect handling of said efforts and/or succumbing to more danger and disaster over the years? SO much to work with. I'll be touching on this with Athis things in future. (:

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

This is a fancy way to ask question 1 again (:

But no there's a lot that can be ignored in canon. And another favorite is that Neloth was alive in Morrowind and is presumed to use and know all those cool spells you can craft.

He should know these things in Skyrim, too, but doesn't. Some silliness about the wiki infers some magic is Illegal but I think Neloth would not give a single shit if it was illegal or not.

So why do these spells no longer surface? (aside from game engine limitations?) Especially when Neloth fights?

I don't know if people ignore this in their fics but I sure don't. I do love my ✨Weird Magic Shit.✨ And crafting spells seems the weirdest and absolutely something that would be frequently and illicitly going on in Tel Mithryn if certain magic is illegal.

It existed and some characters were around when it was normal magic useage and are still around in Skyrim LOL so.... (: Yes. How much weirder magic shit used to be in older games. I feel it's ignored not purposefully...but because not everyone has played the older games. And that's okay too. But I remember and I will take canon and run wild with it.

Thank you for these, Para!!!! AUGH <3 🫂💖

#AskMareena #choose violence ask game #skyrim #tesblr #elder scrolls #fanficblr #skyrim fic #tes #Athis #because of course #weird magic shit

[strangebiology]

Can AI Replace Journalists?

I've tried AI with art and AI with journalism, and their results seem to be the same:

Beautiful, but wrong.

I put in "Mount Diablo in the summer with golden grass in the style of the Hudson River Artists." I get a beautiful image of a mountain that is not Mount Diablo.

Someone at the NorCal Science Writers Association got an AI to write about the NorCal Science Writers Association. The AI produced some lovely paragraphs that make perfect sense but half the facts are wrong.

So...is AI at least on the path to replacing journalists?

My opinion: It depends on what kind of journalism you mean.

TLDR:

Short articles with no original reporting: Maybe partially.

Real journalism: No.

Here's what my job was at N*wsweek:

Be forced to move so I could work in Manhattan for insultingly low pay

Pitch ideas

Editor says no, actually, she has a much better idea: the idea is something I had pitched yesterday so now we're a day late to the party

Find what is doing well online already

Read what others have written and regurgitate it into my article

Find the source and cite them (not sure whether the boss wanted me to do this but I did)

Find the author of the study, schedule a phone interview that is very inconvenient for both of us, and get a quote that is literally the same as what the press release said.

Write furiously, no time for fact-checking!

Find a picture and video that we have the license to go with the article. Most of the time they were completely unrelated.

Negotiate with my editor so the headline was technically true, even if it was grossly misleading. Most people took some terrible hit to their reputation for writing under a headline they didn't choose.

Check which potential words in the headline had the most google results, in a completely counterintuitive and made-up SEO idea

Not tweet the article or tell the sources about it, nor expect the outlet to tweet it

These are mostly things that not only could be done by an AI, but maybe should be, if the AI is advanced enough and was checked by a human. All the young journalists who had their reputations tarnished are real human beings who were burned out and broken by their time at N*wsweek. The robot doesn't care.

Alternatively, I'd consider discontinuing this type of content entirely. If you don't have anything new to say, or a new way to frame it, don't say it at all, you'll just introduce error, whether you're a human or a robot. Just get a content-exchange license and post the original article you're aggregating. This wasn't just make-work, this was actively damaging to all the writers and the readers.

On the other hand, here was my job at Bay Nature:

Find a topic by cultivating relationships with real humans, reading, exploring nature etc.

Discuss in a meeting whether the article is a good idea: Is it original? Is it important? Is there an ethical issue with reporting it? A lot of the ethical issues we considered were super niche: you probably wouldn't think they're issues at all unless you knew a lot about the bay area, nature, and journalism.

Consider interviews carefully: who is a stakeholder? Who has a significant bias? Whose voice needs to be represented?

Ask: What kind of questions are readers going to ask? Who is this for?

Interview people in real life. Include details that wouldn't have been in an email. Use your human brain to determine what is interesting and important. Sometimes things that seem irrelevant turn out to be relevant and engaging.

Cite all sources. A different staff member checks each fact.

I do not believe this type of journalism could ever be done by an AI. Go ahead, find me an AI that can meet up with a trail runner, learn her life story, and select the facts that relate back to the topic of dandelions in a way that engages readers. I don't think AI's can really get any information that doesn't already exist in text, although I know it can synthesize information and come up with new ways to say it.

And, I think this speaks to what the value of journalism really is. So many people think "I learned how to write an essay in high school, and my spelling and grammar are fine, so I'm basically a journalist, right?" No. That's like saying "I can put paint on a canvas, therefore I'm basically a professional fine artist." Yes, most people can do most jobs, but the value isn't in having something technically done, it's in putting your skills to work and doing something new, important, useful, and ethical.

That's just my experience and someone who knows AI better, and also knows journalism, would probably give you a better answer.

#AI #Artificial Intelligence #Journalism #not biology

[ivyial]

hii, how are you? I stumbled upon your page and I started to check it out, upon doing that I came across one of your eagleone posts, and how you view the ship or how you view people who dislike the shop entirely for no reason at all. and to be honest I couldn't agree more. your choice of words and how you describe just makes my heart feel hope again. hope that there's actual human beings that are using a gift called a brain for once.

it honestly drives me crazy to see people literally sending death threats and literal racism to those who ship a ship that isn't quite popular. another account just a few days ago that speaks alot about eagleone and analyses their scenes and dialogues, got literal death threats that would me a grown adult puke from how disgusting to know such human beings exist.

( didn't realize to be that long LMAO )

anyway I just wanted to say that I absolutely love all your eagleone content literally makes my day <3

i- 🥺🥺❤❤ omg thank you so much anon

i've never been one for ship wars. what bothers me the most about the eagleone discourse (and the current cleon discourse on twitter as well) is how likening characters to siblings (eagleone) or saying one views the other as a kid (cleon - insane take but anyway) eventually becomes "these characters are LITERALLY siblings, they are so sibling coded to me that it essentially makes them actual siblings" and creates a breeding ground for harassment and accusations of proshipping.

shipping has always been a matter of personal taste, and it's one of those few things in fandoms where there's no need to debate about conflicting ships. in the end, you can just agree to disagree. i like X for those reasons and you like Y for those. that's it. ships are usually better enjoyed with fellow shippers. it only risks becoming an echochamber when people start to take it so seriously that their group of shippers decides to hate on everyone else, and eventually, to harass them.

which is unfortunately what is happening right now. i'm very aware of the death threats and everything else, and it's sad and infuriating to realise that fandoms will never change. idk how old you are anon, or if you were around on tumblr when it happened, but a few years ago, the voltron fandom was a big thing around here (i apologise in advance to everyone who had to live through that lmfao). klance was arguably the biggest ship in the fandom (keith x lance), so the shippers were actively campaigning for it to become canon. it got to the point where klance shippers sent the show creators cupcakes filled with glass shards to convince them to canonise the ship. I WISH I WAS FUCKING KIDDING

this stuff's not new, bullying fellow fans isn't new unfortunately, and bullying actors or producers isn't either. if i remember correctly, when supernatural s4-5 (i guess) were airing back in the 2000s, dean's love interest jo was removed from the show supposedly because fangirls lost their shit and sent hate mail to producers. but that's all speculation, i can't find a reliable source for that.

i wish people would stop taking everything so seriously and get this nasty over fiction. however, it's unlikely that it will happen, because fandoms are filled with kids who don't know any better, are sometimes fully raised by the internet and then turn into immature adults. it's rare to find spaces in fandoms were you can genuinely have fun and create content without being policed by 12 year olds, but when you can, it makes the fandom experience a lot better.

i don't put much content out there, but i'm glad to see that the few posts i write are appreciated!! i'm working on an eagleone fic rn so it definitely makes me want to keep working on it regularly and create more content 😭

#resident evil #fandom #eagleone #leon kennedy #ashley graham

[areseebee]

14 and 15

hello, anon! thank you for this request, i liked answering these a lot.

[in reference to this ask game]

14. a fic you didn't expect to write

i never expected to write someday. even in the middle of writing smoke break, i was planning on that being all i was ever going to write for derry girls once i had finished it. then one very late night in july, i started talking to @derrygirlstrash about it, i decided what the premise would be - james is making a documentary and he asks erin to help, which would take them back to derry - and i started drafting the emails and now here i am - with another multi-chapter fic that i promise i am plugging away at. i'm trying to get a little ahead so that i can try to post on a way more regular basis like i was able to do over the summer with smoke break.

15. something you learned this year

i'm going to list a few things, but they all are in concert with each other. it's probably all a little too self-serious, but there are times where i really love soaking up what writers say about their writing, so here's what i have to say about mine:

i learned that i am not a writing machine. this is so stupidly obvious to say, but i had to come to terms with it. i am more like a writing plant that needs water and sunlight and isn't always flourishing in quite the same way every day and that has relationship with my writing and that's ok.

i learned that i can very easily feel a lot of pressure and that i have to guard myself a little more closely than i had ever thought i'd need to. i, of course, love hearing when readers connect with my writing and i love meeting and talking to new people because of something i wrote (i've made new friends because of it, how special is that?), but for me there has to be a balance in the boundaries i set for my own brain or i start worrying about others' expectations instead of focusing on my own, and then i start to feel like i lose sight of why i'm writing, which is really just for myself. i don't want it to ever feel like a job, that makes it feel joyless to me. which is a good segue to:

i am not a Content Creator and i don't need to produce like i'm one; i want my hobby to be free from capitalistic constraints, i don't want to feel alienated from what i'm making. i write for the love and joy of it and because i like to spend time in stories and need to get some of them out of my head onto the page.

there are seasons to produce and seasons to rest. over the past couple of months i've been learning how to better embrace that it's ok that i'm not writing at the same rate i was earlier this year, and i trust that someday i will again, but right now i am enjoying reading a lot and watching films a lot and writing a lot, too. i feel like i'm doing a lot of cultivating right now that i'll get to reap a little later on.

#ask game

[alessandriana]

Tagged by @glorious-spoon!

What is your total word count on AO3?

228,319! Which is a minuscule amount of all the stuff I've written-- my hard drive is littered with unfinished drafts, sigh.

How often do you write?

The goal is to write every day. In practice I get reasonably close, but I struggle to write when traveling, which I've been doing a fair amount of lately, and sometimes I just need a break to let my brain reset and ingest content rather than produce it.

Do you have a routine for writing?

Around 9 or 10 pm I start going 'crap, it's late; if I don't write now I won't get anything done.' Then I stick on some music and sometimes join the sprint channel on discord.

My local nano group used to have regular writing meetings; I miss those.

What’s your favourite trope/pairing?

It'll shock exactly no one to hear my favorite trope is hurt/comfort! In general I enjoy tropes that force people together, or force them to confront feelings (romantic or otherwise) that they would prefer never see the light of day.

Pairing-wise I'm a multishipper at heart, and lean heavily towards OT3s-- there's just something deeply appealing about people having to navigate non-traditional relationships, as well as having that third person come in from the cold, so to speak.

Do you have a favourite fic of yours?

Probably respire, suspire-- it was a real stretch project in terms of length, subject matter, and pairing!

I'm also extremely fond of your own heart as signal, mostly for the sake of the bits that haven't been posted yet (I really need to get on that.)

Which fic of yours has the most kudos?

Homesick at Space Camp is in the lead, though the trick is to keep breathing is coming up a real close second!

Anything you don’t like about your writing?

Hmm... one thing I've been noticing lately is I have a tendency to reuse some standard patterns in dialogue, especially in h/c fic, in a way that can sometimes elide character. Granted I reuse them because they're tropes and as such effective, and no one who hasn't read every single thing I've written is going to notice the pattern, but I do! So I'm trying to work on making it a little less noticeable.

Also I need to get better at smut. XD

Now, something you do like!

IMHO I have a fairly solid ability to match the original canon's characterization, as well as tone and writing style (for book fandoms especially).

Tagging anyone who wants to be tagged!

#memery #writing

[aechteaseawb]

Lmao tbh I also wanted to give fic recommendations but the only fandom we share the same interest in is only krw. Bc ya kno, theres like not much fics in ao3 for krw so I guess you might have already read all of it (like me lol). Tho some krw fics are really worth rereading and such.

But just in case you are interested, some of my old favs is Paperplane (Terusho), [citation needed] (Shophil), One Of These Days (Shophil, this one so 💞💞) and of course, God Of Shotaro (PhilSho, and it might make me sound conceited but this my fav fic I wrote for krw 😆)

(also, if you know all of this, you can see I have a preference lmaoooo)

Oh! No worries!!! I literally just enjoy hearing people talk about things they like! And yup I've been on the tag but I'm careless and miss things very easily so I appreciate the reminder of some hidden gems I might or might not have overlooked!

I'm scared this reply might get long so I'm putting it under a read more as to not disturb those not part of the fandom haha

Paperplane my beloved!!! Yes I've read paperplane and it's so *clenches fist*. For me it was like how you sometimes read a story and completely connect to the author's interpretation. Not a lot of Terushou out there either! (what a shame. Terushou is criminally underrated) So I extra appreciate it!!

[citation needed] I read but forgot so I gave it a lil reread and yup. yup. yup. That's the good stuff👌 The author is so on point with the dialogue. Absolutely love the tonal voice of the thing, so thank you for redirecting my attention there!

I've never read One Of These Days but I really like how it has plot-relevant case-solving in this one! Probably because I am personally very bad at Plot and not big-brained enough to come up with actual detective cases.

And don't worry about sounding conceited! I think it's very brave of you to put yourself out there! We need more of that energy all around tbh, to be able to just say we love our own writing. And oh boy, I really want to say something more connected to the main storyline but I gotta say, my favorite line?

“Oh, poor god,” she said. “Having your last priest died here right in front of your temple, unburied.” Then she paused, “Or is it suppose to be like this?” she asked herself because who knew what tradition this placed hold a hundred years ago.

God I love Akiko. This is so her. And Raito Content? Not enough people produce Raito Content😔Thank you for the food.

Also! I get it man. I get it. As I see it, at least. I understand yearning for the thing canon will not grant us. I understand the urge to take Shoutarou, someone who is (as well as sees himself as) Always There (A Constant), and put him in a situation where there's a very real possibility of losing him, whether by his inaction or some horrible accident (and sometimes actually losing him.) Yup. I get it.😌

Thank you for the recommendations! I really enjoyed this different view from what I'm used to looking out of!

#kr w #answered ask

[idyllic-affections]

🌻 DND FANTASY YESSSSS ive been having like a major baldur's gate 3 brainrot and i was like. why not make a fantasy au with genshin. it might be fun. so i did! i honestly love any kind of fantasy but the traditional one just has a charm??? it is nice?? maybe because i was always a big fan of fantasy movies when a kid. either way it's a rly exciting thought and i will tag u <3

i was also thinking abt making this au... free to. use?? as in??? u can write for it or just make content and ill be very much happy AJJHDJFS it will be a BIG au so why not share it with everyone else!!

i already have a list of all races i want to have, some... starter lore, short nations characterizations, how archons and magic works here, four subtypes of elves... i am Thinking. Thonking even. brain brrrrr

YEAHH it really does have it's charm. i've been deeply invested in dragon age: inquisition lately. got the game of the year edition on sale for 10 dollars which was an absolute WIN.... i've dipped my toes--so to speak--in mamy different flavors of fantasy over the years. i just really like fantasy, such a great genre in all it's forms tbh!!

(...my favorite movie as a child was how to train your dragon. and tbh that still is one of my favorites. so. LMAO. i also grew up in an enviornment in which my parents were always watching or talking about things like pirates of the caribbean [if that counts?!?!?!], the vampire diaries, twilight, supernatural, lucifer... that kind of thing. so. perhaps that's why! i also was a wizard101 player as a little kid HAHA

though i did miss out on dnd style fantasy media specifically in my childhood. it's regrettable BUT i am happy to consume that media now. the exception, however, would be the game diablo 3. i played that game like... my whole life. still do sometimes if i'm not playing diablo 4 or dai <3)

OHH THAT'S AWESOME you totally should!! it would be reasonable to ask that the people who create content for it credit you for the au, though!!

that is SO awesome i hope your brain is always producing good and wonderful thoughts fr

#aphelion replies: 🌻 anon 🌸 #this sounds so awesome beloved i am so invested in this already AKDJFKSHJG

[a-birdhorse]

I watch a lot of content about writing, and I read a lot about writing (in spite of how I may come across on this website) and I would like to make a submission to the World Writing Advice canon if it be accepted by the tumblrfolk: A lot of what people say to new writers is not helpful to some neurodivergent people.

Do I think people are doing this on purpose? No. That's silly. People are just sharing the advice that has helped them, and it's hard to give advice to people whose thought processes are totally different from yours. But does that make this kind of bad advice any less harmful to the people who it doesn't help? It does not.

Let's take an example of something that I see a lot among the YouTube writing channel set: Outlining. Outlining is a very important step when it comes to long-form fiction writing. All serious writers should at the very least be familiar with the basic techniques of outlining if they want to make high-quality work, just so that they have those tools available to them should they want them. That's not the problem.

The problem is that I've seen people say that if you aren't making a detailed outline of each scene in a play/screenplay/novel that you won't be able to keep track of events and your work will be worse for it. When I first started out writing plays, I believed that because it's what people had told me at my university and it's what people said online. Why wouldn't I have? The problem is that I have pretty bad ADHD, and stopping my thought process to write a detailed outline that might take me days to produce kills all the momentum that I might have already had. This technique killed multiple plays before I wrote even a single scene.

Then, I had an idea for a play that was simple enough that I could just remember what the scenes where going to be about and the order they were going to go in. I started writing without making so much as a mark in my notebook, and I was finished with the first draft in two weeks. I never felt lost, I always knew what I was writing next, it just worked. Why? I had done it all wrong.

The answer was that the advice of strict outlining was not good advice for me and my chaotic brain. Am I saying that you, neurodivergent author who is reading this, should stop outlining? No, that's not what this is about. Like the playwright I am, I have hidden my actual thesis halfway through the post: Never take someone else's advice at face value.

Let's look at another example: Ray Bradbury wrote every single day of his life. This is what made him a great writer, that's what I've been told. If you read any kind of published works on writing, that's likely the most consistent advice you'll ever see. Just work on writing every day. Once again, this is not the problem. Writing often and having your work evaluated by others is an important step in the process of growing as an artist. The problem is with the natural interpretation of that advice: Write stories every day.

Why would this be a problem? If you, like me, have the habit developing capabilities of an unstable atom of Americium 241, then you will inevitably end up missing a day or thirty of working on your projects. For me, this caused a lot of guilt. I would get into a loop of thinking that I could never be a great writer let alone a good writer if I wasn't constantly working on new plays or short stories or whatever.

Then, I took a job writing blog posts for a weird little startup (let's not talk about that.) Suddenly I was writing every day for work and feeling more and more comfortable at the keyboard. This gave me the confidence to start working on the projects that I wanted to work on, even if I couldn't do it every day because I was tired from work. I learned that it didn't matter what I wrote every day, I just had to be something. This allowed me to lower my expectations to a more realistic place in a way that has allowed me to develop a fairly robust suite of places to practice my writing skills even if I can't tell a story every day. I write fanfictions. I write speeches for my D&D characters. I write little poems. I send a text to my friend. I post on this very website (shocking, I know.) That's all writing! And when I have the energy, I can work on my plays.

But that initial advice of "write every day" needed a ton of tweaking for it to be empowering to me. As it was written, it was a shackle more than anything else. And I suspect that a lot of people out there feel the same way I did, like because they can't work on their novel/play/film/old school RuneScape tutorial every single day of their life they're somehow a failure. They might have ADHD like me, or they might have Bipolar disorder, or they might experience depression. They are not empowered by this advice. Like the advice of outlining, it is holding them back.

This is not a callout post. People don't need to stop giving out writing advice. That advice helps a lot of people. I would appreciate people who make videos/posts about writing to soften their terms a little bit. Don't tell people that they'll never be a good writer if they're not writing every day. Don't tell people that only meticulously outlined work is worth making. Please give people alternatives to your primary advice. Writing is like any other form of art in that you can make beautiful things using any number of methods.

This post is already super long, but I'm going to finish it with something I learned from my time acting: the only thing that matters to the audience is what they see. If they see a King Lear crying over the death of the only daughter who truly loved him, a crystal clear mirror in his hand, then regardless of that actor's internalities that is reality to the viewer. When it comes to art, it doesn't actually matter how the image arrives at the eye, or the ear, or the fingertips. All that matters is that it does. I hope that we can all keep that in mind as we share our little tricks for helping us do that work with our friends, keeping in mind that they are nothing more than tricks.

#writing #creative writing #writing advice #adhd #neurodiversity #inclusion

[blorbologist]

3, 7, & 19 for the weird questions for writers ask game :) <3

Answered 3 here!

7. What is your deepest joy about writing?

I really get a huge kick from things coming together! Be it a scene just unfurling from my fingers with great emotion, or tweaking one sentence and finally it all works, or sorting out a plot snarl. There's a satisfaction to getting it right, and then getting to share that and see that emotion echoed in others!

19. Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going?

Well, I was a weird kid ijnkntrkn, my brother and I lived a ways away from most of our friends, the one computer in the house was for Dad's work bar an hour or two, and the TV was usually occupied by our mother. So we spent our days running around and making shit up in the woods (namely fake dinosaur documentaries), telling dramatic stories with our toys and, once we got into school, reading books.

Once we had more access to the computer, I got into RPing Warrior cats and built up my first skills there with those friends, and of course making up fanclans. Had a whole thing where my friend, brother, pet cat and I became Warriors for my main fanclan of the day KNTHKNRTN I think all kids have stories inside them, and want to share them. I think my first real piece of fanfiction was a little post-ending but pre-epilogue Hunger Games thing of Peeta having a panic attack? Or that's what I consider my first fic. It's probably buried in my old laptop somewhere deep.

Over the years I've written here and there. A Fullmetal Alchemist 'where are they now' HC splurge fic. Some Fairy Tail stuff, including a huge angsty Fallout AU I had. My first AO3 fic was for the She-Ra reboot when the ending made me sob in relief and joy, 10k words in ~24 hours in the start of the pandemic. A few CR fics here and there, but nothing substantial. Writing for fun was hard. Really hard.

I think the biggest bump along the way was a slow crawl into a gambling addiction. Fun lil game got its claws into me and sucked my entire soul dry - why bother writing or drawing when the rush of RNG gave me what my brain wanted far more easily? It sucked, it really fucking sucked, and I'm still working off the credit card debt slowly but surely. (It's hard to bring up, but I figured it might do someone good to hear it).

After I quit, it's like I had found the energy and muse I had as a kid, writing thousand-word replies to my friends' RP posts, or huge lore docs about a Pokemon story idea I had with my brother. It was incredible - I'd started writing Courage is a vintage not long before (I think I might have posted it a month prior?) and got involved with the community on here. The amount of joy I got, from exchanging headcanons, from seeing people enjoy what I produced, getting to poke at these characters and see them unfurl, it got something going. And then I started working on One for sorrow, and doing prompt games, and... here I am!

As for where I'm going? Two for joy is on track to finish in the next few months and have its last chapter + epilogue posted within a week-ish of One for sorrow's first chapter. I've written 350k+ words of content since last June, and I'm happier than I've ever been. Maybe part of it is due to where I am in life - doing research, honest to god research, with a cool lab and taking walks daily and getting harassed by my kittens - but I firmly believe part of it is due to this community.

Where I'm going next... well, you know. Can't wait to share it with everyone else ;3

Weird questions for writers ask game!

(I'm answering between bouts of preparing a presentation, so sorry if these take a while to get to!)

#ask game #my writing #personal

[recoveringcultmember]

So, you're finally awake.

It's been a while. I've been inactive, online and offline. Living with my partner has been great, and she makes me happy. But the thing about my depression is that it seems like it doesn't matter if I'm happy sometimes. Sure, I don't feel like killing myself, but I don't really feel like anything. I spend all day consuming content, rather than producing anything.

This is true through multiple different areas of my life. I watch content that someone else made, I eat food that has been mostly prepared by someone else, I do what my partner wants to do when she makes the decision to do something. But what have I created?

I haven't. I used to do Twitch streaming before college, when I was mentally healthier without realizing/feeling like it. Now, looking back, I long for those days. I long for the brain I used to have, and how life felt then. And I've always been like that, since I was a kid realizing how Christmas felt less and less good inside every single year until it felt like nothing at all. Longing for the way it felt the year before. Missing it.

How do you recover from this?

Actually putting my thoughts out would probably help. It always has before. Creating something through writing, to let my voice be heard. I used to do that with my online friends before I shut them out too. I'm never open, I'm never vulnerable, I'm always just existing and making a joke here or there, the same ones I always do. There is no point, there is no lasting impact, there is nothing memorable except how explicitly unmemorable my presence is now. How do you get out of this?

It's almost like it's become harder to talk openly as I've gotten to know people better. When my shroud of anonymity is all but gone, I want to hide and shut myself off. But then when I have an anonymous venue to let all of this out, like here, it flows so easily. Am I just afraid to let people know the real me? Do I know the real me? Do they even exist anymore?

It hasn't felt like it in years. As I've said before, college killed me. I truly feel that way. Now I'm left wondering what I can even do about it. The first step is telling some people I guess. Maybe I'll share this page finally. My head hurts just thinking about doing that.. but I probably should do it regardless.

[janshu]

Inu!Bakugo...for @ultimate-astridwriting's Hybrid collab!

Summary: My part of the hybrid collab. I had so much fun writing an angry Pomeranian Bakugo. 10/10 would do again. I'm not completely happy with it but who ever is? I'm still proud of myself!

Word count: 2.2k.

Warnings: Fem!Reader, Bakugo being an ass, sexual content, somnophilia, collars, choking, humping, creampie, name calling (bitch, slut, whore etc.), use of the word cunt.

You sigh as you rummage around in your pocket to produce the key to your home. After a long day's work all you want to do is get some dinner, take a bath and go to bed but none of those things would be possible would they?

No, not after the spur of the moment decision to adopt a hybrid of all things. The week earlier was one of torrential downpours and near freezing temperatures, the roads making a slushy substance of half-melted ice and salt to prevent the very thing it was being mixed in with. People stayed indoors the best they could when they weren't at work but life had to shit on you and make your car breakdown in the parking garage. Umbrella rested on your shoulder, rain boots on your feet with your spare in your bag and you trudged through cold, mushy hell back home. The streets were barren as a Walmart on a weekday at 4am, no life passing by you until you crossed an alley between two businesses. A pathetic whimper had caught your attention and your gaze drifted down to a soaked cardboard box. What was in that box you weren't sure if you should curse or love. A hybrid.

Narrow red eyes stared at you in suspicion, fangs bared at you but the creature didn't make any attempts to nip at your fingers when they neared to ruffle the spikey head of hair. The hybrid had leaned into your touch before recoiling away as if you had smacked him. The black and orange collar had seen better days, the charm that dangled on the hollow of his neck read "Dynamite" but he didn't give any indication that was his name when you repeated it outloud. He was barely dressed in anything, a thin t-shirt, shorts with ragged Converse that had more holes than Swiss cheese. Truthfully he looked a few days away from starvation and how could you keep that on your conscience if you left him there? After laying your warm coat over his shoulders you somehow, someway, managed to get him back to your place. Everything went downhill from there in the blink of an eye.

The weak puppy persona was gone the moment warm food settled in his belly and within the hour he acted as if you had crowned him king of the house. Beginning his rambles of curses, demands and biting at your fingers. The worst of it happened when you tried to take his collar off for a new one, one that wasn't frayed and barely hanging on. "Katsuki" as he spat out his name with enough venom to put a Black Mamba to shame had flipped over a coffee table, ripped up every couch cushion and went so far to chew on the linoleum on the kitchen floor.

No doubt you'd be greeted with the same sight as always. Messy, dirty, unknown stains everywhere and dishes still in the sink waiting to be moved to the washer. Maybe if he wasn't such a loud ass you could train him but your frazzled nerves were at their wits end. You didn't know what to do, you were about to throw in the towel and put him up for adoption. Yep, you were disappointed to be proven right. Katsuki reclining on the couch lengthwise, remote in his hand with the most bored expression on his face while idly flipping through channels.

"Fucking finally, you're home! I've been waitin' for fucking hours for your ass to get back! I'm hungry, get your shitty ass in the kitchen and make dinner." He barked. Barely giving you any time to hang up your coat and slip off your shoes before his orders began.

"Katsuki...I can't, not tonight." Could your voice portray anymore pleading? Apparently not because he didn't seem to notice, or care.

The fluffy ear at the top of his head only flicked in response, the top lip curling into his signature snarl. "Then what the fuck are you good for? Get your fucking ass in that god damn kitchen and fucking make dinner already."

All that you were good for? All that you were good for? How dare he! He's been freeloading off you for a week now without so much as a thanks for saving him from the streets, feeding him, clothing him, keeping him warm and dealing with his bullshit and this is how he repays you?

"I've fucking had it with you!" Your voice rose higher than you meant to but at this point you didn't care, a line had been crossed. "You fucking sit there and ruin my shit and yet I'm the useless one? I have half a mind to kick you out! You can make your own fucking dinner, I've had it! I'm done! I can't take this anymore!"

Despite not having any clunky shoes on your feet still managed to resonate in the small living room while you stormed past the couch. You had expected anything, anything at all. A slap, a punch, a groan, literally anything but you were met with only silence and that somehow pissed out off even more. How could silence be so infuriating?! You didn't even notice the terror that washed over his face as you screamed at him or the way his chest heaved with the sob or how he trembled underneath your wrathful gaze as you walked away. The bedroom door slamming made short work of that.

"Fuck I'm such an ass.." You mused to yourself already regretting blowing up at him but what would an apology do that wasn't already broken? So better yet why not send yourself to bed without dinner as some kind of punishment? He'd linger at the doorway to the kitchen, staring at you with those intense eyes if you made dinner anyways so why let him win? He could his own shit for fucks sake!

After a quick shower to dethaw your bones and warm up what was left of your dead soul the softness of your pajamas helped ease the guilt gnawing away like a puppy on its first bone. Laying in bed until sleep eventually overcame you and when he knew it was safe to slip in and sneak over towards your bedside.

Rustling was what woke you. The rustling of clothes and the jingle of something metallic in the darkness of the bedroom. Whatever grogginess you normally suffered when waking up was vanishing the more details were dissected and understood by your half-asleep brain, a process that took an embarrassingly long time. Clothes rustling, the bedsheets moving, heavy pants and something incredibly warm nudging up against the sensitive skin of your inner thighs. Naturally your brain assumed the worst and your eyelids flew open to show nothing; at first. As your eyes adjusted to the pitch black room they found the blazing stare of those vermillion eyes, the bared fangs that belonged to your hybrid.

What the hell was Katsuki doing on top of you?

Noticing that you were awake the snarl turned into a smirk as he huffed, his large chest expanding with each desperate pant. Why did your folds feel so good just as you were waking up?

"Feel that?" How could you not? The feel of a scorching cock bumping up your folds and sensitive clit, wet from the pre leaking from the tip. There was so much of it from what you could feel, too sticky to be your own. His hips had yet to cease moving, no word from your shocked form to still his rutting hips.

"W-what the hell are you doing?" Was the most logical question your brain could come up with in the moment.

"Humping...fucking dumbass." His warm breath created goosebumps on your cool skin, his head must've been so close to yours by the hair tickling your forehead. "Tryin'ta...help ya. Shitty woman.."

"Help? How the fuck is this helping?"

"You've been working so hard so I thought maybe...a good fuck would calm ya down, relax ya." Katsuki's voice was so desperate, so needy, the humping of his cock on your labia increasing.

He was trying to help? He was going to fuck the frustration out of you? Is that was he was offering? Having sex with a hybrid was common enough to not be considered taboo but you couldn't help but feel he was trying to worm his way into your good graces. Unless your words had struck some kind of cord with him. "Okay, alright, I'll let you help."

"Fuck yeah!"

With that the head of his cock nudged against your cunt, already spread and waiting for him. How long had he been doing this for? The burn of the stretch was delicious, he was just big enough to fill you up but not hurt. Settling right up to kiss the tip of your cervix when he bottomed out. His hands grip at your thigh and hip, pulling his back to slam his cock right back into you. Over and over, over and over, over and over. Practically using you as a fleshlight to get himself off but damn if it didn't feel good, him bouncing you on his cock so roughly each thrust was sending the headboard against the wall.

"Oh fuck...oh fuck, Katsuki!" Your hands pat around and eventually find his biceps and you cling on for dear life, your nails digging crescent shaped markings into his skin.

"Yeah, yeah...you like this form of stress relief, don'tcha you dirty slut?" Undoing the collar around his neck the frayed cloth of the strap is tied around your neck, the buckle clamping down tightly to constrict your airflow while two fingers slip under it to pull and tug. "You're my dirty fucking slut! Mine...mine...mine...mine, fucking mine!"

Your fingers trailed down the tiny amount of space between your bodies down to the precious, neglected nub between your legs. Barely able to wiggle your index and middle finger down there from the rabid fucking you were receiving to circle the bundle of nerves and send yourself over the edge. Each clap of your thighs smacking against each other forcing your hate for his behavior ebbing away. If he was going to act like this all the time how could you kick him out?

"F-fuck! Gonna cum...fucking cum..cum for me. Cum with me!" Katsuki snarled as the pressure around your throat increased. Your hand was smacked away from your clit and was replaced with the large pad of his thumb, frantic circles sending your body into a writhing mess of flails and kicks.

The orgasm that had been steadily building from your ministrations had been ripped away and replaced with one quickly approaching to push you over the edge. The white hot pleasure-coil that formed underneath your belly button snapped and all of it coursed through your system in one go. Paralyzing your body for a split second as you squirted all over the hybrids cock, his still rubbing hand sending the liquid everywhere. Coating his thighs, your thighs and the bed underneath you.

"Fucking fuck! Such a whore, such a dirty girl for me! Oh my fucking g-god!" One last slam of his hips and his own body stilled, burying his cock deep inside your cunt to shoot his cum deep in your womb. He stuttered before his body collapsed on top of you, suffocating you in his sweaty muscles.

Bathing in the afterglow, coming down from your high you could've sworn you heard something. Mumbling, soft mumbling too indistinct to understand. Katsuki's head laying on your shoulder, his nose brushing along your collarbone and was he laying kisses here and there? No, you must've been seeing things. Still buried to the hilt he turned his head to speak, his fluffy ears perked and his tail gently swishing behind him. The sudden light from your phone illuminated the room, casting light on Katsuki's face and the sight made your breath hitch in your throat. Clearly he had been crying. Tear stains streaked down his cheeks, brows knitted together and the same lost look he had plastered on his face appeared again.

"Please, please don't kick me out. I'll do anything, please...please don't abandon me. Not again." His arms wrapped around your waist, pulling you closer as he hid his face in your neck. Voice breaking, shoulders trembling, the verge of crying all over again quickly approaching.

Your heart broke and you returned the favor by hugging him around the shoulders, a hand carding through his hair to soothe him. Had he been abandoned? Did his previous owners not like him? Was all his aggressiveness some kind of defense mechanism? Was he giving you a reason to kick him out to keep himself from experiencing that kind of pain again? Oh, poor baby. "Never again...just don't destroy things anymore, okay? Help me around the place a little more will ya?"

"Yes." Katsuki snuggled on top of you. Finally believing he had a real home with you, a place where he could belong. "....Master."

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[supermoviemaniac]

We still doing this huh?

It's okay not to care or be invested in the franchise - it may seem overbearing or unappealing from the outside if you're looking at a 26-film franchise, but you're going to get laughed out of the room for thinking the MCU should stop.

This isn't me getting butthurt as a fan, but more of a desperate plea for journalists to take a step back before they write slow-office-day articles like this. How many times have we seen this article... but how many times has an MCU movie broken its own previous records and gained more and more fans?

I feel like a stuck record now, but the best way to look at the MCU is as a series (partly because it is); the Avengers movies are season finales, and with the Infinity Saga ending, it's time for the MCU to direct us toward the next big stories. From Iron-Man 1, to Endgame, the MCU had been an ever-growing smash hit, with the greatest cathartic ending in cinematic history. You can watch the whole Infinity Saga and check out there if you wish, but you're going to look a fool if you think they should stop after sticking their first landing.

Don't get me wrong, I would have been content if Endgame was the actual ending, and it's always a concern when a franchise/series is doing well, there must come a time when it either ends with dignity or doesn't stick the landing... but if Marvel Studios are continuing to make quality, justified, game-changing movies (which are clearly building up to something far crazier than Thanos and 6 stones), then why stop now? Do we suddenly have no faith in these clearly passionate directors/storytellers and producers that have delivered the most entertaining franchise in history yet? I'll hold my hand up honestly and confess myself: sometimes when they've announced more and more Disney+ shows, I initially think "Oh god, another one?!", but so far, they've all been great in their own ways, and my apprehension is always squashed. Because Marvel play the long game, we care about each and every character and their development, so when we reach larger ensemble movies, they're genuinely incredible to watch, due to revelations and each film before it being somewhat of a building block.

Without the 'simplistic' origins of the MCU, we wouldn't be able to have the crazy things we saw in Shang-Chi, Eternals, Loki and WandaVision for example. You don't have to like the movies or the shows... no one is asking you to watch them, but with dumb articles like this, you're turning a blind eye to millions of fans with justified passions.

Are we going to get articles like this whenever a Marvel movie doesn't perform as good as the previous one? We've got substanceless brain-candy movies like Sony's Venom 2 getting rated higher than Eternals, because Eternals delved outside of the main MCU formula and provided a great character driven sci-fi with 10 unfamiliar characters... whereas Venom 2 was a bad comic book movie but painted by numbers so got a higher score. If Eternals delivered the same generic story as Venom 2 had, would it have gotten a higher score? Subsequently, would we then not have dumb articles like this? Because right now it seems the writer is trying to capitalise on Eternals' mixed reception. If that's the case, I advise they check out the audience score, because it'll be the audience that are actually invested and care about these movies. The writer even confesses he really loved Shang-Chi, which is post Endgame, so what's his issue? It feels like they want the MCU to fail if anything.

Note: my Eternals review will be coming soon, and yes I did like it a hell of a lot. I've seen it twice now and it's just outside of my top 5 MCU movies. I'll be talking more about the mixed reception and critics' hypocrisies whenever they complain about a Marvel formula but then dissaprove of something for not feeling like a standard Marvel film.

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